Example sentences of "from a [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 She 'd gathered the fragrant blooms from a tub outside on the narrow balcony and deeply inhaled its sweet perfume before deciding to wear it in her hair .
2 Dr Joseph Wybran , the head of the Belgian Auschwitz Committee , who had campaigned for the removal of an order of Carmelite nuns from a convent just outside the perimeter of the former Birkenau extermination camp , was shot in the head outside Brussels University Hospital on Wednesday .
3 Approaching from a direction opposite to the outbound leg , or at a large angle , will mean a procedure turn , or a parallel procedure .
4 Hankin rates the Bishop Auckland youngster but feels he will benefit from a spell away from the first team .
5 In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor .
6 Dads had to jump into a lake from a rope-bridge just above the surface .
7 A MAN fell 150ft to his death from a cliff yesterday on the Berwickshire coast .
8 Another branch of the Sava , the Sava Bohinjka , rises on the southern flanks of Triglav , flowing through subterranean passages under the valley of the Seven Lakes to emerge from a cave halfway up the sheer wall of Komarča as the waterfall of Slap Savica .
9 View of the remains of Spitfire Vc BR108 with the wing from a Bf 109F on the wall behind .
10 You can either buy a ready-cut type or make your own , tracing the design from a pattern elsewhere in the room , such as the curtains or the carpet .
11 Some years previously , however , a long tunnel , North Cross-cut , was taken off ( along a fault ) from a point further along the Deep Level ( see Fig. 19a ) to try the Dry Gill Vein — at the intersection it was found to be a barren quartz string .
12 A favourite spot for horse-riders , ramblers and walkers , the right of way which runs in a straight line from a point close to the Royal Naval School comes out at the Hindhead gibbet .
13 The teenagers had been on their way home from a party just after the outbreak of hostilities and , according to one military policeman , had tried to crash the road block , almost running down one of the MPs .
14 In 1946 he undertook a triple portrait of Bobby , Oska and Eric Verrico ( plate 13 ) from a drawing now in the Victoria and Albert Museum .
15 Carson arrived at the zoo an hour later and bought a layout map from a kiosk just inside the South gate .
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